For the 2008 Festival, Musica Viva presents the dynamic musical partnership of the Goldner String Quartet and acclaimed Scottish pianist Steven Osborne.
This electrifying combination perform two popular piano quintets, Schumann’s surging romantic masterpiece and Shostakovich’s neo-classical work. The Quartet performs Musica Viva’s 2008 Featured Composer Richard Mills’ first String Quartet while Osborne explores the sensual world of Debussy’s best-known Préludes.
Biography
Steven Osborne
Pianist
From exhilarating concertos to delicate chamber works, from mainstream Beethoven, Mozart and Brahms to the rarefied worlds of Messiaen, Tippett and Alkan, Steven Osborne is at home with the widest range of styles and his carefully crafted recital programmes and idiomatic approach to contrasting works are both publicly and critically acclaimed.
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